Graves disease results of two methods of the radical treatment

ABSTRACT

The graves disease remains one of the major preocupations of the endocrinologist. It's a variable disease and its treatment is purely symptomatic and medical in the first purpose. Surgical versus Radioactive Iodine treatment are discussed. Through a retrospective study of 250 cases of Graves disease, 150 patients treated by surgery and 100 by radioactive iodine, we tried a comparative evaluation of these two methods. The analysis of the patients documents shows that the complications are less frequent in the patients who received the radioactive iodine, did not present hypoparathyroidism [the major complication of surgery]. The hypothyroidism is observed in only 27% of the cases after 22 +/- 6,8 months, versus 4 1,5% in the patients who underwent surgery [17 +/- 4,8 months]